Fantastic cities : American urban spaces in science fiction, fantasy, and horror /
"Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City-American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American ci...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2022]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- FANTASTIC CITIES
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section I: Imagining Fantastic Cities
- Imagining Gotham: Hard Knowledge in a Soft City
- "Whither Mankind?" The Fantastic Meets the Frontier in The Phantom Empire
- Cities and Communities: The Urban Vision of Kim Stanley Robinson
- Section II: Picturing the End of the Urban World
- The Banality of the Apocalypse: Colson Whitehead's Necropolis and Mirthless Parody
- Cities of the Dead: Urban Vampires in Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
- Confronting Race and Racism in the Post-Apocalyptic American City
- The Water Apocalypse: Utopian Desert Venice Cities and Arcologies in Southwestern Dystopian Fiction
- "It's Not Good Here Anymore": Nuclear Survival and New York City's Space in Kenny Scharf's Videos
- Section III: Freedom and Restrictions in the Fantastic City
- Sylvester Stallone and Urban Order in the 1980s and 1990s: Gendering the City in Demolition Man and Judge Dredd
- "We Speak Another Language Here": Samuel Delany's Dhalgren and the City of Folly
- Imagining Digital Cities: Freedom and (Non- )Human Agency in Representations of Virtual Realities
- Sleep Dealer
- or, Tijuana, Ciudad del Futuro
- Section IV: The City and Its Environment(s)
- Terraforming and the City
- Olympia, Wilderness, and Consumption in Laird Barron's Old Leech Cycle
- Ecological Plant-Based Urban Planning Makes Eleanor Cameron's The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet Real
- Bibliography
- Contributors